The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-07-02
ALL THE NEWS
or WEST VIRGINIA RECORDED IN
BRIEF SPACE.
Incidents and Accidents and Matters
Miscellaneous.
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There is an effort on foot to illum-
mate the streets Of Fairmont with
the electric light.
Governor Wilson is to deliver an
Grafton in Tammany Hall, New
York, July the 4th.
The citizens of Wheeling are try
ing to secure the presence of Presi-
dent Cleveland at the State Fair this
fall
Prof. Robt. A. Armstrong, of the
West Liberty Normal school. held
the Brooke County Institute last
week.
Hon. II. S. Walker, wife and
daughter have gone to their summer
residence in Virginia to spend the
summer
A competitive examination for APP
plicants for appointment to the Ma
val Academy was held at Point
Pleasant on June 18th.
Prof w. II. Woolery has been
elected President ofBethany College.
He is graduate of the class of 76
at Bethany, is 81 year old, was born
in Kentucky and has been PROBES
sor at Bethany for the past five years.
He declined the offer of the Presiden-
cy of Hiram College to accept the
Presidency of old Bethany.
We understand that Harry Sands
has secured orders for 1I2 electric
lights on Main street. 1t is now
probable that the establishment of
an electric plant in this place will
be assured if the town authorities
will agree to throw aside the kero-
sene lamps and light the streets
with electricity.-Fatrmoat Inder.
The Secretary of State of West
Virginia ON the 18th inst, issued
certificate of Incorporation to the
Big Sandy, Tug River and Twelve
Pole Railroad Company for the
purpose of constructing and operat.
ing a railroad from Ceredo, Wayne
county, w. Va, to the Kentucky
line, together with various branch
roads, with capital stock of $780,
600. The stock is held by parties
in Ashland, KY, and Wayne county,
this State.
Says the Huntington Adcerttser:
Our military organization has named
itself the Huntington Light Infan-
try" and has elected the following
officers: Captain, w. H. Lyons;
First Lieutenant, RI. E. Matthews;
Second Lieutenant, w. H. Banks;
First Sergeant, B. L. Priddie. IT
now has forty-five members enrolled,
and will occupy Millender's old rink
as an armory and gymnasium. The
company has determined to adopt
Standard Springfield rifles, and the
shooter will arrive next week, when
the boys will put on the pomp and
circumstance of war. A very gen
eral interest is manifested in the
success of the organization among
our business and professional men,
and quite a liberal sum has been
subscribed to put the company on
war footing We will hereafter feel
entirely secure in the event of evas-
ion or instruction.
Mr.. j. A. Sharpless, of Keyser, a
graduate of the Normal school, re-
Gently sent to Prof c. A. Sipe, the
Principal, section of the so-called
petrifed snake found in the mines at
Shaw, Mineral county, and of which
so much has been said The sec
ton is about three feet in length and
from three to four inches in diane
ter. 1t is not petrifaction of ami
NAL life, however, but fossil plant
of the carboniferous age, paleozoic
time; class, phenegam; order, gym
nosperm; genus, stigmariae. They
are quite a common fossil, being
found in the under clays of the coal
measures. They grew as stout
stems, from two to five or more
inches thick and from II to 80 feet
high, having over the surface distinct
rounded punctures or depressions.
The specimen is a fine one and is
highly priced among the curiosities
being collected for the school.
The Clarksburg Neps of last
week says: Some few months since
young man named w. p. Prickett,
painter by trade, and hailing from
Marietta, Ohio, but originally we
learn from either Marion or Monon-
gala counties, came to Clarksburg,
and being member of the Baptist
church soon got job of painting
from Bro. J. NJ Mines. Mr.. Mines
paid him upon completion of the
work, and Prickett skipped by the
light of moon, forgetting to pay Gus
Spates for the paint, and actually
beat his boarding house out of
eight dollars board. He is a good
sized, smooth faced fellow and wears
glasses. AS he is very attentive
church member the probability is he
will try the same game on some of
his Baptist brothers in other pas
lures" Mr.. Prickett hailed from
Marion county, and was attending
the University here a year or two
ago.
A dispatch from Anderson, w. Va,
says: while railroad laborers
were excavating rock about four
miles east of this place the explosion
of a charge of powder revealed an
opening into a cavern of unknown
extent. During the afternoon it was
explored for upward of a mile, and
wonders rivaling in extent and
grandeur those of the celebrated
Luray caverns were found Half a
mile under ground a stream of water
was discovered, which, for purity
and sweetness is unequaled, by any
of the mountain springs. Stalac-
titles of every conceivable shape and
size were found scattered through
the various chambers, and the ex-
plorers loosened some beautiful
specimens and carried them to a
room near the entrance. The gal
leries and apartments all have
smooth stone, and the former range
from seven to fifteen feet wide by as
many high, while many chambers